https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-ideas/create-feature-layer-setting-to-allow-disallow/idi-p/1605093 <P>Create a settings switch for Hosted Feature Layers to allow or disallow a feature layer from being overwritten from ArcGIS Pro or other platform that would cause a loss of data for the related feature layer. This would be similar to the switch that allows or disallows a feature layer to be deleted.</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="DanielMellott_0-1744366895632.png" style="width: 316px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/130046iD7CD38C2D93399CE/image-dimensions/316x255?v=v2" width="316" height="255" role="button" title="DanielMellott_0-1744366895632.png" alt="DanielMellott_0-1744366895632.png" /></span></P><P>The option would be added under "Deletion management" and say "Prevent this item from being accidentally overwritten"</P><P>This would help prevent the catastrophic loss of data that cannot be avoided with the prevent deletion setting alone. Documentation in "Manage hosted feature layers" that says enabling sync or edit tracking would prevent overwriting is incorrect, as I had a feature layer created by Survey123 accidentally overwritten (with loss of all collected survey data) when someone was trying to overwrite a different hosted feature layer.</P> Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:35:52 GMT DanielMellott 2025-04-11T10:35:52Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-ideas/create-feature-layer-setting-to-allow-disallow/idi-p/1605093 <P>Create a settings switch for Hosted Feature Layers to allow or disallow a feature layer from being overwritten from ArcGIS Pro or other platform that would cause a loss of data for the related feature layer. This would be similar to the switch that allows or disallows a feature layer to be deleted.</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="DanielMellott_0-1744366895632.png" style="width: 316px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/130046iD7CD38C2D93399CE/image-dimensions/316x255?v=v2" width="316" height="255" role="button" title="DanielMellott_0-1744366895632.png" alt="DanielMellott_0-1744366895632.png" /></span></P><P>The option would be added under "Deletion management" and say "Prevent this item from being accidentally overwritten"</P><P>This would help prevent the catastrophic loss of data that cannot be avoided with the prevent deletion setting alone. Documentation in "Manage hosted feature layers" that says enabling sync or edit tracking would prevent overwriting is incorrect, as I had a feature layer created by Survey123 accidentally overwritten (with loss of all collected survey data) when someone was trying to overwrite a different hosted feature layer.</P> Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:35:52 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-ideas/create-feature-layer-setting-to-allow-disallow/idi-p/1605093 DanielMellott 2025-04-11T10:35:52Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-ideas/create-feature-layer-setting-to-allow-disallow/idc-p/1605673#M12400 <P>Hi <a href="https://community.esri.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/14032">@DanielMellott</a>,</P><P>I think this would be a great addition to our data management options in ArcGIS Online, so I have logged this as an Enhancement request for our development team to review.&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thank you for sharing your idea with us!</P> Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:33:28 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-ideas/create-feature-layer-setting-to-allow-disallow/idc-p/1605673#M12400 Alyssa_H 2025-04-14T14:33:28Z